| Emulator [message #373818] |
Fri, 21 September 2018 01:15  |
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Originally posted by: Anthony Adverse
I've been sitting here the last 12 hrs or so belting away at GSplus, and although its now running nicely, and I've gotten used to being back in the GS saddle..mostly...I still can't remember how to rename folders. I'd have to say I far prefer working on the real thing. I think my nostalgia stretches not only to the function of the system, but to the noises all the accoutrements made to go along with it.
Hard drives that whine and make weird noises as they do their thing, at least you know its doing something, the emulator sits there doing its thing... it is doing something isn't it? It doesn't let you know... until all of a sudden you're off again.
And although I'd have to say its going to be far faster to move the archives into my bbs file areas... I also miss the null modem cable hanging out the back plugged into the pc's serial port. Even though the best reliable speed I could get was only 19.2k... watching the numbers tick over until you got to the destination...
I also wouldn't have this funny stripey desktop that feels like the mouse is trapped in a little shoebox somewhere.
I'm not really bagging the emulator here, its doing a great job. Not sure just how fast its really cranking along, but its certainly doing its thing, and at the end of the day I've only managed to hang it up twice or thrice. Its just that as good as it is... I wish I had my old faithful one here instead.
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| Emulator [message #373821 is a reply to message #373818] |
Fri, 21 September 2018 04:51  |
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Originally posted by: 6502enhanced
There is nothing better than to use real Apple II hardware - it really rocks! Sometimes if I have to I use Virtual II but it feels a bit empty. I run A 80‘s Apple II BBS on a real Apple IIe and it is sometimes hard work to handle the real 5.25“ disks on two Duodisks - but I love the sound and the feeling that it is all real. All running as it did in the 80‘s - that‘s great! I would never change that.
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| Re: Emulator [message #373837 is a reply to message #373818] |
Fri, 21 September 2018 11:00 |
Hugh Hood
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Registered: November 2012
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in article be7186c8-0530-451a-94ac-15274a100d74@googlegroups.com, Anthony
Adverse at the.ertceps@gmail.com wrote on 9/21/18 12:15 AM:
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> I'm not really bagging the emulator here, its doing a great job. Not sure
> just how fast its really cranking along,
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Anthony,
FWIW, GSPort (cousin to GSPlus) manages a 200+ MHz emulation on my Intel i5
System with Windows 10. I'll bet you're somewhere close.
Still, my favorite emulator is the 20-year-old Bernie ][ the Rescue, which
manages 160+ MHz on my 1GHz Beige G3 in 'Classic' mode under Mac OS X 10.4.
Plus, it supports both serial ports and drag-n-drop of files into the
emulated GS. Nice features.
I understand that Sweet16 (a descendent of Bernie) has improved greatly
since I used it, and now has many of the things that still attract me to
Bernie; unfortunately, none of my Macs are modern enough to run the later
versions of it.
Hugh Hood
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| Re: Emulator [message #373888 is a reply to message #373818] |
Sat, 22 September 2018 05:37 |
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Originally posted by: Brian Patrie
On 2018-09-21 00:15, Anthony Adverse wrote:
> I've gotten used to being back in the GS saddle..mostly...
> I still can't remember how to rename folders.
The same way you rename files:
* In GS/OS click on the name (not the icon), and edit in the usual ways.
* In BASIC.system use the RENAME command.
(Though it can't change the upper/lowercase of letters.)
(RENAME can also be used to rename volumes. e.g. "rename /foo,/bar".)
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